• Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    You’re allowed to be atheist of course, but do you have any more proof that there are no gods than they have that gods exist?

    EDIT: Y’all can have your opinion, no one’s questioning that. You’re allowed to believe there are no higher powers, but I’m not allowed my personal belief that there is?? Not one person has provided proof that there is no Higher Power. Grow up…

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Careful, many online atheists don’t understand that they have to prove a negative. That they have to prove the assertion: “There is no god.”

      The default position is that there is yet insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion.

      Edit: Thank you for the downvotes, you have provided me with further evidence that online atheists don’t understand that they have to prove a negative. Your butthurt fuels me.

        • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
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          8 months ago

          You have made the assertion, thus you have the burden of proof.

          “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” QED

            • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
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              8 months ago

              I wasn’t arguing for the existence of god.

              Let me break this down:

              • “There is a god.” --> Burden of proof
              • “There is no god.” --> Burden of proof
              • “Hey, man. I don’t know.” —> No burden of proof
              • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                8 months ago

                The second one is wrong, there is no god is not a claim that requires evidence in the same way there are no fairies in my fridge doesn’t require evidence